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THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE PRIDE AND PREJUDICE LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION ACTIVITY BOOKLET, AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice.' Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer's ideas within the text, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Austen's use of language.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Whole-lesson PowerPoints, activity resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

In this lesson:
Learners are able to apply the concepts of congruence and similarity, including the relationships between lengths, {areas and volumes} in similar figures
The topics covered in this lesson includes:
Congruent shapes
Similar shapes
Ratio of similar shapes
Lesson can be used as whole class teaching by teachers and at home by learners.
Lots of drag and drop activity with instant feedback.
To access online choose the multiscreen.html file.
To access offline choose the swf file.
Contains 39 Interactive pages

In this lesson, learners will be able to derive and use the standard ruler and compass to construct the perpendicular bisector of a line segment; construct a perpendicular to a given line from/at a given point and bisect a given angle.
They will recognise and use the perpendicular distance from a point to a line as the shortest distance to the line.
Lesson can be used as whole class teaching by teachers and at home by learners.
Lots of drag and drop activity with instant feedback.
To access online choose the multiscreen.html file.
To access offline choose the swf file.
Contains 20 Interactive pages

This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice.' Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer's ideas within the text, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Austen's use of language.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Whole-lesson PowerPoints, activity resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

In this engaging and informative lesson, students develop a deeper understanding of the Bennet sisters in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. In particular, students compare and contrast the sisters’ physical and emotional characteristics, and comprehend how each sister is implicated within the plot.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which students learn through:
- Playing a fun quiz to determine 'Which Sister?' is involved in different plot events;
- Reading and understanding how the sisters are introduced in the novel, using relevant textual evidence;
- Retrieving information from the text to create character profiles for each sister, including their age, physical and emotional descriptions;
- Comparing and contrasting each of the Bennet sisters analytically;
- Peer assessing each other's learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- Extracts from Chapters 1, 2, and 3;
- 'Character Profile task resources - in Word and PDF form;
- Supportive and clear essay template;
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. These resources were originally taught to GCSE students, but with subtle adaptations they have also been used with both younger and older (up to A Level) students.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.

Edexcel 9-1 GCSE
American West 1835-1895
New 2016 Specification
Revision guide covering the complete American West topic.
Contains detailed top level (Grade 9)l knowledge on all aspects of the course, covering the specification from Edexcel
Includes over 30 exam questions (Consequences, Importance and Narrative Analysis) with 'how to' guide
Knowledge Organiser included alongside contents page
Visually laid out revision guide with images aiding information.
Can be used for revision, homework, interleaving, within class teaching and as a basis for a workbook.
Cheap to print for students (70p a copy) which is cheaper than purchasing multiple revision guides which can lack detailed content for higher ability students.
Please see my other lessons and resources
Feedback welcome
@mrthorntonteach

In this engaging and informative lesson, students are enabled to make sustained and developed interpretations regarding the introduction and development of the character of Mrs Bennet in 'Pride and Prejudice.' In particular, students learn about how her tiresome, ungraceful, single-minded behaviour ironically alienates the very suitors that she hopes to attract for her daughters.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which students learn through:
- Establishing the extent to which Mrs Bennet fits the requirements of the 'Regency mother';
- Reading and understanding how Mrs Bennet is introduced in the novel, using relevant textual evidence;
- Tracking how her character develops through the notable events of the novel;
- Analysing how Austen introduces and develops Mrs Bennet's character throughout the novel;
- Peer assessing each other's learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- Extract from Chapter 1;
- 'Development of Mrs Bennet' task resources - with teacher answer sheet;
- Supportive and clear essay template;
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. These resources were originally taught to GCSE students, but with subtle adaptations they have also been used with both younger and older (up to A Level) students.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.

In this engaging and informative lesson, students are enabled to make sustained and developed interpretations regarding the introduction and development of the character of Mr Darcy in 'Pride and Prejudice.' In particular, students learn about how he at first appears solely proud and aloof, before studying the events through which the more subtle aspects of his character emerge.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which students learn through:
- Establishing how Darcy fits the criteria of the 'Romantic Hero;'
- Reading and understanding how Darcy is introduced in the novel, using relevant textual evidence;
- Tracking how his character develops through the notable events of the novel;
- Analysing how Austen introduces and develops Darcy's character through plot events and Elizabeth's thoughts;
- Peer assessing each other's learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- Extract from Chapter 3;
- 'Development of Darcy' task resources - with teacher answer sheet;
- Supportive and clear essay template;
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. These resources were originally taught to GCSE students, but with subtle adaptations they have also been used with both younger and older (up to A Level) students.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.

In this engaging and informative lesson, students are enabled to make clear and insightful interpretations of Elizabeth Bennet – the chief protagonist in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. In particular, students learn about her key characteristics- such as her strong ideas, wit, intelligence, grace, and good humour – and relate these to ideas of societal expectations of the time.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which students learn through:
- Playing a fun and interactive quiz to determine the key events and family life of Elizabeth Bennet;
- Establishing her characteristics and traits, utilising textual evidence;
- Analysing Elizabeth's character in relation to the expectations of society in the Regency Era;
- Creating clear and creative diary entries, using an in-depth understanding of Elizabeth's character;
- Peer assessing each other's learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- 'Character Traits of Elizabeth' task resources - with teacher answer sheet;
- 'Elizabeth in Context' task resources - with teacher answer sheet;
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. These resources were originally taught to GCSE students, but with subtle adaptations they have also been used with both younger and older (up to A Level) students.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.

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STEM is an educational program developed to prepare primary and secondary students for college and graduate study in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). In addition to subject-specific learning, STEM aims to foster inquiring minds, logical reasoning, and collaboration skills.
Hence, the creation of this all-in-one, cross-curricular, 300 slides, fully automated STEM quiz.
Some of the merits and features to gain in this quiz include:
-designed and animated 300 slides with questions and answers for you;
-animated buttons for spontaneous questions and answers;
-editable slides for your own questions and answers;
-questions have been distributed based on different year groups;
-questions have been selected from Science (physics, biology and chemistry), Technology (Computing and ICT), Design &amp; Technology and Mathematics;
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This lesson and resource bundle provides all that is needed to aid students in composing their own short magazines, on a subject/genre of their choice. Everything that is needed to teach the project is provided, including engaging lesson powerpoints, worksheets, model examples, and activities, and also comprehensive lesson plans for each stage.
Each engaging and informative lesson aids students in learning about and then composing a different magazine page. Included are lessons on:
- Choosing the Genre and Audience and Composing a Front Cover
- Writing Agony Aunt/ Uncle Pages
- Writing Feature Articles
- Writing Reviews
Throughout each lesson, students learn through defining techniques, identifying 'what a good one looks like' and analysing model examples, before using writing help-sheets and success criteria to design their own.
All images are cited on the final slides of each PowerPoint.